“Stanford can be a leader in the new field of computational journalism,” Hamilton said. “There are so many people here who are trying to focus on this question of how can you use larger amounts of data, new algorithms and knowledge from social science to help journalists produce more of accountability or public affairs reporting.”

New dean of Graduate School of Education Daniel Schwartz introduces background, future goals

“It’s a mistake to come in to a school that is this spectacular with a vision of what they should be doing.” Daniel Schwartz said. “They’re the brilliant people — my job is to lead them to establishing a vision that they think is the one that should carry us forward.”